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Senate committee gives favorable report to bill updating nurse practitioner appointments to joint committee
Summary
A bill negotiated among the Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Nursing, the State Nurses Association and the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama received a favorable committee report after brief presentation.
The Senate committee gave a favorable report to a bill that would change how nurse practitioners are appointed to the joint committee that reviews collaborative practice recommendations.
Reagan Ingram, an attorney with Wyndham Gallagher representing the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners, told the committee the bill is a negotiated, agreed-upon measure among the Board of Medical Examiners, the Board of Nursing, the State Nurses Association and the Nurse Practitioner Alliance of Alabama. "We have an agreed upon bill between the BME, the board of nursing, the state nurses association, and the nurse practitioner alliance of Alabama to take care of some problems on the appointment of nurse practitioners on the joint committee," Ingram said.
The measure was presented briefly, a senator moved and another seconded the motion for a favorable report, and the committee voice-voted the bill out with a favorable report.
The bill sponsor and the committee did not discuss further amendments on the floor during the recorded portion of the hearing.
The committee’s action was procedural: the bill received a favorable committee report and will proceed according to the Senate’s rules for next steps.
No statutory citations or implementation timelines were specified in the recorded remarks.
A summary of next procedural steps and any floor scheduling was not recorded during the committee exchange.
